Why is reading such an overwhelmingly female hobby? Why don't men read?

To a lot of these BookTubers reading is just a commodity like anything else. I also suspect many may even be plants only there to shill products for publishers.

women have higher attention spans than men
probably for biological reasons or something

so bbabby isnt kill

Because most guys, due to the female-dominated public education system, do not realise that the western canon is literally filled with manly exploits and meditations that have proved useful for the most powerful men in history.

Instead what they come across is some usually dry work like Of Mice and Men without the proper context right alongside some postmodern female poet that undermines masculinity or the classics in the next breath.

Teenage males leave literature with an impression that it is self-hating and irrelevant, because they aren't told that the critics that shit on the classics or practically any literature before the 20th century do so for in-the-present academic and journalistic brownie points and are obscuring the true essence of the works.

If I had read the Iliad when I was in school, I feel like my whole perspective would have changed on literature far earlier. But instead of war, brotherhood, heroism, honour, sacrifice, regret, etc you get a shallow guilt trip about racial or socioeconomic tensions from the 20th century.

Women are responsible for 80% of all consumption on the planet and "reader" is a consumer identity.

Can a woman consume me?

Other than music and maybe film, making and consuming art is considered feminine

Because the men don't try to market their reading. But it seems like that they should. There's obviously a market to exploit.

No idea why you fags pay such close attention to what women do

This author doesn't seem to have ever heard of movies, TV shows (including anime), manga and video games.

>Yet by early adulthood, most males have lost interest in fiction. The cause, I’m sure, is genetics, neurological wiring, hormones, or some combination thereof.
>Boys and men are, in general, more convergent and linear in their thinking; this would naturally draw them towards non-fiction. The most frequent male criticism of fiction is that it’s “not real”, “made-up”. Men seem to like straight narrative lines, provable facts, reportage – an architecture of external reality.
>Women, by contrast, are more divergent thinkers, and also more attracted to the life of the mind: internal reality. What individuals think and feel is as important as a flat record of seismic events.
>Most men are probably accurate when they say they find fiction boring: all that interior monologue, metaphor, obliqueness, tangents that don’t obviously go anywhere. And it is, by definition, invention; this never took place, they reason, so how can it mean anything?

Completely ignores the fact that most literature came from males for thousands of years.
How can men like Homer, Euripides, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and countless others be the originators of those concepts that men are supposedly not interested in?
It's what I'm talking about here:
Men are not given a fair account of the literary tradition and are not generally told why the classics have been a mainstay of elite education for hundreds and hundreds of years.
It is intentional and insidious.
And I would be very surprised if any guy on Yea Forums actually found their passion for literature actually in a public school english class.

Most men are autists apparently

>hobby
Uhh

>The most frequent male criticism of fiction is that it’s “not real”, “made-up”
...and then they buy tickets for the latest superhero movie.

Iirc most autists are men.

I'd imagine more men pirate books, whereas woman buy the latest trash.

They're all too busy playing video games.

It's the same reason why the gamer gender ratio is nearly 1:1 today. The equivalent of young adult books--mobile games--allowed women to participate in the hobby.

Why are women so goofy looking.

Only Anglo women desu.

attention whores

Young women read more than young men, I'll give you that. But most of my colleagues read regularly.

Only if you're Chad or Tyrone

Boomer?

He's making a joke observation about what someone who only exists in an internet world would think.

The scary idea of his proposal is that millenials who dont know any better probably literally think this and act as such. So the false narrative that is promoted actually has a culture warping effect. It may as well be true.

Bravo, based OP.

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Yoke, why dont you kys you raging poltard virgin? You realize that most white literature is either (1) shit, (2) racist dog whistles, or (3) was stolen from the mythology and folklore of PoC. I know you're probably just a butthurt raging autist because the black girl in youre sociology class is smarter than you or because you female professor stopped bumping up uour scores after you failed the 5th consecutive test in a row.

Fuck shitposters, poltards, autists, trolls, and racists. You guys are killing this board with you cringey nonsense.

Reading is a passive activity. You open your brain to be penetrated by the conceptual phallus of the author.
Think about it, these words you are reading are my dick and they release cum which fertilizes your subjective experience giving birth to new thought.

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Take yourself to the nearest bridge and throw yourself from it. Do us all a favour you waste of breath

That article is from 2010

Men read, but they don't typically read contemporary fiction. Just look at this board and even Reddit.

>tfw no booktuber gf

Imagine being this fucking gay

Boys go outside to play while girls sit around doing fuck all. If it was a competition I would say the boys are better off because they're less likely to get caught in the YA trap and refuse to grow up. I see 30 year old women on Goodreads with 700 books read but it's all fantasy and romance. A guy that starts reading late will at least have some shame.

thats retarded

thats accurate but there are other possible explanations like "autism" being defined in terms of inhibiting functioning and women being more able to get away with that shit

Hahaha based

This

>So the false narrative that is promoted actually has a culture warping effect. It may as well be true.

Look how ass mad this raging homosexual gets if you even suggest that the entire western cannon has any value at all. If this guy was given any power at all, isn't obvious how he'd use it? Imagine if he was your son's middle school English teacher. How do you think your son would feel about literature? This guy is reason and the result.

This is true for "noble" men, the elite minorities, not for the multitudes of peasant men that exist in a permanent dreamlike state and who history wouldn't miss if they all disappeared

Get your hands chopped off and never approach a computer again.

Deleuze, go to sleep.

Men don't read modern lit because it's a) trash and b) costs a fuckton

Reading requires excess spare time, which men generally do not have, and women do. If men do have spare time, they are inclined to do useful things, such as fixing things, lifting weights, teaching his offspring how to skin a rabbit, and so on. Time if too valuable to be wasted on reading and assorted frivolities.

>Having forgotten that piracy is a thing
I didn't think anyone visiting this autistic Imageboard doesn't at least know that much

Men are too busy working and being cucks to women instead of reading schlock.

I see your point but It's far more active than television and music though. You can easily filter what you agree with/what you don't agree with, skip thoughts, dwell more on thoughts you like, decide your own pace etc...

With television you are 100% at the mercy of the pace and emotional manipulation, so on the cuck scala reading is far less cucked than passively consuming motion picture.

Porn and video-games. They are the men's Achilles heels. Our brains are biologically hardwired for action and hunting more so than women, owing to the early stages of human civilization. It is my belief that this trait makes us more susceptible to things that are designed to take advantage of the way the mind operates and hook you into positive feedback dopamine loops. Modern technology/society = decline of men, decline of men = decline of the overall society. Our boys are failing in school, in the workplace, and so on. Already women now make up more than half of the students in institutions of higher education. I am completely lacking in confidence that anything will change any time soon.
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its because women read harry potter and cuckold fantasy novels

I don't know. I think it is because men instinctively don't trust anyone who thinks he is important enough to have their thoughts immortalized in paper. Men grow up to be humble and quiet. We are islands. If someone feels the need to express himself to the world, there must be something fishy about it. He just wants to make money or is a narcissistic prick who thinks his thoughts are gold. We simply don't value other humans enough to give a fuck about their opinion, even if they are regarded as talented writers.

Women are different. They are more trusting. They don't have this instinctive distrust of others.

More women go to university but they also get into more debt and study bullshit.

>women now make up more than half of the students in institutions of higher education
thinking this is a legitimate achievement instantly outs someone as having no idea what they're talking about

Would you care to elaborate? What is it about being in a college or university that makes it not an achievement? How is any of what I said indicative of "having no idea"? Please do try to give big boy responses, dear.

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what books are popular with women lately?

Reductive and obviously not true. It’s probably a problem with education, which MUST occur first and primarily in the home, but even in American public schools boys are exposed to Homer, Shakespeare, etc. It’s got nothing to do with some attack on masculinity

Bullshit teenagers have to pick between paper thing with words and videogame with tiddies. Guess what will they chose?

>In my opinion, this empty excuse of ‘Men Don’t Read’ has begotten a vicious cycle. I was hesitant to write this article, mainly because in no way do I want to be perceived as diminishing the talents of many, many brilliant women in publishing, nor do I believe that there is a true ‘gender bias’. A bias insinuates some sort of malice, a purposeful exclusion of a segment of society for selfish or ignorant reasons. Those kind of insinuations are not the aim of this piece, nor are they my opinions in any way. This is a critique of the system, not those who work within it.
Imagine making this exact same argument towards a medium that heavily targets male consumers (film, video games, etc.) you'd be fucking lambasted.

>What is it about being in a college or university that makes it not an achievement?
The fact that they are getting degrees in whining and willful misinterpretation of statistics. In real disciplines with impartial empirical results men substantially outnumber women. The only tragedy for men in higher education is that feminists are trying to destroy the meritocracy in subjects that matter, and that their institutions are wasting money and credibility on the remaining nonsense.

>How is any of what I said indicative of "having no idea"?
The fact that you use asinine clickbait metrics without the slightest consideration of the above type of details.
>Please do try to give big boy responses, dear.
Also because you have to resort to this kind of shitposting to compensate for your dearth of substance.

Schopenhauer said it better and without the pornographic imagery for sake of shock value.

Women buy more of almost anything, though.

that's not an argument against them reading more

>women
>think
Umm no.

>Why don't women write poetry?

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> In real disciplines with impartial empirical results men substantially outnumber women.

My dear boy, a simple google search would show you how wrong you are. I hope after this you learn the value of citing a source. aei.org/publication/table-of-the-day-bachelors-degrees-for-the-class-of-2016-by-field-and-gender-oh-and-the-overall-25-6-college-degree-gap-for-men/ According to the department of education, women currently make up the majority of recipients of bachelors degrees for the following fields; English Language and Literature, Foreign Languages,Education, Biological and Biomedical Science, etc etc. Now I do not know about you, but to me, none of these fields seem to have to do with "whining" or "willful misinterpretation of statistics". If this does not satisfy you, I will be happy to find more sources for you since you seem to have a little trouble googling things.

> use asinine clickbait metrics without the slightest consideration of the above type of details.

Well now, it looks like I have adequately proven via my above sentences that my metrics were not "clickbait". Thank you for playing! I do wish you better luck on the next try.

>Also because you have to resort to this kind of shitposting to compensate for your dearth of substance.

Again, my friend, sources. If you still feel I have a, "de𝘢rth", of substance after this, as I said before I will be happy to make a few google searches for you on account of your own idiocy.

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>schoolteachers and pre-med
Of the ones on your list, only the last two have any serious empirical metric (foreign language is close, but it's a solved field with no innovation). And they focus much more on memorization than problem solving. Once diagnosis AIs become mandated by insurance in ten years, the profession of doctoring (as distinct from surgery) will lose the last of the prestige it has, and these majors will be seen as the equivalent of veterinary science.

>aei.org/publication/table-of-the-day-bachelors-degrees-for-the-class-of-2016-by-field-and-gender-oh-and-the-overall-25-6-college-degree-gap-for-men/
if you had actually bothered to look at the link you just googled up, you'd have realized that it goes against your claims.

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Biology isn't a serious field?

I think a lot of women just read for the aesthetic. Which is why they mostly read such vapid trash. They don't care about what they're reading, just at who's watching them read it.

>if you had actually bothered to look at the link you just googled up, you'd have realized that it goes against your claims.

Not at all my friend! My original claim was that men are falling behind in academia because of the different aspects of modern society and technology that they are more susceptible to than their female counterparts. The source I provided supports this in the sense that women make up more degree holders overall. Furthermore, every year, the disparity between men applying for college and women applying for college is increasing, see theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-men-are-the-new-college-minority/536103/ or statista.com/statistics/236360/undergraduate-enrollment-in-us-by-gender/ or maybe even pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-college-enrollment-gains-leave-men-behind/ .

And so my original argument remains intact. As to the first part of my argument, regarding the susceptibility of our male brains, see; sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018112308.htm or drdouglas.org/drdpdfs/Gentile_Pathological_VG_Use_2009e.pdf .

Thank you for playing!

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I haven't read your post but go back to redit. The way you type is so fucking obnoxious.

I am sorry if I hurt you user. Can we be friends?

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superficiality, find a logical connundrum a character may have faced and they wont be able to tell you about it, only able to quote the plot and characters but not the meaning between the lines

Its the most common crime for both sexes/genders when reading philosophy

But i suspect its even higher for stacey's who try to read as fast as they can

Reading is a passive activity where your inner monologue is taken over by another person. It is inherently feminine and the cognitive equivalent to a woman having sex with a man. It appeals to men who are either spiritually homo or the bright sons of single mothers who, without a proper father figure, thought that being the class smartass would make him attractive to women.

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Probably because being bookish is seen as quite a feminine trait, and having anything to do with studying / reading for fun is considered gay.

it's not but women are just attention hungry about it

women read more often than men, it's true, but they mostly read crap like harry potter and romance novels so it doesn't mean much

>pirating books
You're a fuckin moron, it's a wonder you can even read.

what is your issue with 'pirating books'

I have literally pirated thousands of dollars worth of books and will continue to do so since I don't have the means to pay for them. Stay mad rich boi.

It's all about YA. Ya was supposed to be a stepping stone into actual literature, but instead has become it's own industry designed to keep people reading YA, sometimes outright criticizing the classics. Since men generally hate children (as they should) they are not writing the successful ya books. Thus female writers are dominating the main sector of publishing, attracting female readers, and men are not reading those stepping stone books. The only men who read are the ones who discover the classics and the Canon, and that's why the canon is being made fun of now, because college literature courses are full of YA reading women, and a handful of classic obsessed men, who are in the minority so their interests get made fun of. That's my take on it, it's just the result from economic incentives

girls read books about getting fucked by chad or a nig they dont read lit

You’re wrong.

Hello, dear bait poster

I was in B&N and overheard two ladies gushing about Crawdads.

I'm pretty skeptical of modern literature. I try the stuff that wins awards and that is about it. Some of it is okay but not nearly as good as books that have stuck around for a while.

Those books look like the equivalent of comic books

this board is not representative of anything

All humanities are essentially garbage at this point, and I imagine men are the ones doing most of the actual publishing in biological sciences.

>that >
why?

>why is reading YA schlock such an overwhelmingly female hobby?
FTFY

Damn that's a good point.

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Excellent argument.

It lowers your Test levels